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After filing my taxes online, I noticed a link to the TurboTax "Tax Rap" contest website.

Intuit has a $25,000 contest inviting users to perform YouTube rap songs about TurboTax software. The host of the contest is Vanilla Ice, who set a definite example for many of the contest participants.

Although I sampled many of the latest entries, I was incapable of watching any of them to completion. Here are some of the images I'm trying to forget:

• Formerfatboy: "I make 30 grand a year, so much for my degree / and I write about games so I can write 'em off, sweet!"
• Gmiller10304: SNL "Chronic of Narnia" redux.
• Rhettandlinl: Geeky duo in early Will Smith style. The non-rapping, singing climax was painful.
• Goremy: All about the Uncle Sam costume.
• Lucidsurreal: Animated entry, with the best sound editing, overdubs and syncopated rhymes.
• Djfwally: More Zappa than Rappa.
• Evcakes: Guys wearing suits riding tricycles boasting about their financial planning skills. "You'll be workin' in the factory while I'll be sippin daquiries/Playin' shuffleboard with senior ladies comin' after me."
• Funkyfreshco: Guy wearing an oversized dog mask going old school. Plus a guy with a robot mask does the robot.

My vote goes to Evcakes. They were the ones who went farthest beyond "it's funny to rap about taxes" to perform "a funny rap about taxes."

Labels: accounting, music, tax